Classical Period

Classical period can refer to the following:

  • Classical Greece, specifically of the 5th and 4th centuries BC
  • Classical antiquity, in the Greco-Roman world
  • Classical period (music), in music
  • Classic stage, of American archaeology

Famous quotes containing the words classical and/or period:

    “The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always greater than its performance—Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, for instance, is always greater than its performance—whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being performed.”
    —André Previn (b. 1929)

    “The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.”
    —Ernest Gellner (b. 1925)